Published: July 2014

View of Shafer Vineyards, tasting room and winery. Photo by Russ Widstrand Wine Spectator recently ran an article on my client Shafer Vineyard’s classic Napa Cabernet… Hillside Select. This was a retrospective tasting of the wine from 1978-2009. One of my photographs was used to illustrate the article, shown above. Author James Laube had this […]

It seemed to me that the DailyPhotoGame.com could use a twist in the Conversation. So rather than submitting another abstraction I thought I would play off the patterns of Robert’s rustic image with this people shot. While out looking for interesting elements to shoot for the Game, I drove by this group of young photographers and their photo-session […]

My shoot for today’s Game day took an unexpected turn. Upon seeing Robert’s colorized palm trees, what came to mind for me was Dandelions. Their form is the closest thing to a palm tree here in the Northwest and I liked the similar – but different take on the idea. I captured many views of […]

My take-away from Robert’s sweet image for the Game was the spiral twists of the red vines. We are in Montana, so my props were limited. However, I did rummage through some old boxes of rope and found theses two door springs, I thought I could make use of them somehow. After stretching the springs […]